Austerity & Aesthetics
April 20 - May 31, 2026

Curated by Olga Tobleruts

The idea for the exhibition was born back in 2010. Bringing together works by famed artists, many of which are held in private and museum collections, was no easy task, but it became possible with the support of the Ekaterina Culture Foundation.

The concept of Austerity and Aesthetics traces its origins to Timur Novikov's New Academy of Fine Arts. The 1990s in Russia were a decade of change, liberty, and permissiveness. For some Neo-Academist artists, this exuberant period of merrymaking was followed by a phase of self-restraint and asceticism, as many took a turn toward religion, prayer, and solitude.

Curated by Vsevolod Saplin

Artist Nastya Miro and artist Vsevolod Saplin, working together as part of the creative collective Platform 112, present the exhibition Slava and the North, hosted by the Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, with the support of Artzip Gallery.

Against the backdrop of the harsh yet magical landscapes of the Arctic, and artifacts of the proud and heroic exploration of the Far North, the artists tell a story through diverse artistic forms — one that can be described as a "return home." The exhibition, comprising paintings, installations, videos, audio recordings, and an art object, is divided into several sections that offer viewers different scenarios of this nostalgic journey.

Curated by Sergey Dorokhov

The exhibition space is transformed into a labyrinth garden, which only its keeper is truly capable of comprehending. But what do we protect when we stand guard over a garden - a flourishing order or the wild exuberance of life? The memory of the past or a vision of the future?

The Garden Keeper is not only an observer but also a mediator between worlds: culture and nature, form and chaos, the visible and the concealed. The exhibition explores the very act of contemplation, with the garden serving as an archive of perception and feeling. It invites not just passive admiration of beauty, but a conversation with life's vital force - a realm where we are both hosts and guests.

The project seeks to find a balance between the fragile and the monumental, the classical and the modernist, the play of light and the fracture of form. The Summer Garden is a dream, an attempt to tame nature through reason, to create an ideal world where ancient gods coexist with beds of peonies, and the symmetry of tree avenues follows not only the laws of geometry but also those of utopia.

Curated by: Alexandra Kuznetsova, Masha Dantsis, and Vassa Pyrkova

The HSE Art and Design School presented a major exhibition titled The Great Disorder; it was a large-scale project bringing together artists, designers, researchers, and educators reflecting on chaos as one of the fundamental forms of the world's existence.

The Major Exhibition is an annual event organized by the HSE Art and Design School since 2021. Each edition is dedicated to a "big theme" explored by students, alumni, and teachers across all disciplines.

This year, for the first time, the open call was available not only to current students, graduates, and faculty of the Design School but also to independent artists. The open call was hosted by art.mediiia - a space created in partnership with the Design School, where contemporary artists and curators present their projects, art historians publish research, and critics review cultural events.

Like the previous years, the project took place across two venues, with exhibitions united by a shared concept.

The Soviet statesman who had the talent to be boss of Ford or GM

Russia Beyond the Headlines / November 24, 2016

A new exhibition of photographs in Moscow is dedicated to Soviet reformer Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin. Favored by Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev, Kosygin was responsible for the introduction of dramatic reforms in the 1960s, attempting to bring elements of a market economy into the Soviet system years before perestroika...

Oleg Tselkov: la liberté du prisonnier

La Dame de Pique / June 30, 2014

Prisonnier. C'est le mot qu'Oleg Tselkov emploie pour parler du rapport à son art. Il se sent prisonnier dans sa création. Et ce constat, il le fait tout sourire. C'est un prisonnier heureux, accompli, libre. Cette prison, il a commencé à la bâtir lui-même en 1960 lorsque le premier de ses personnages s'est invité dans son œuvre, pour très vite ne plus laisser place à d'autres thèmes, à d'autres inspirations, à quelque intrus que ce soit. Aujourd'hui, il n'a plus vraiment le choix. Inlassablement, il peint ces étranges figures...

• Adult - 400 rubles
• Preferential - 100 rubles
• Child - 100 rubles

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During exhibitions:
Tuesday-Sunday - 11:00-20:00 (11:00 am - 8:00 pm)
Ticket office is open untill 19:30 (7:30 p.m.)

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Moscow, Russia, 21/5 Kuznetsky Most, porch 8

Entrance from Bolshaya Lubyanka street
5 minutes walk from the metro station "Kuznetsky Most" or "Lubyanka"